World and people

Official name: Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign country located in the northwestern region of South America, which is constituted as a unitary, social and democratic state of law whose form of government is presidential. It is the only nation in South America that has coasts on the Pacific Ocean and access to the Atlantic through the Caribbean Sea, where it has various islands such as the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. It is the twenty-eighth most populous country in the world, with a population of 51 million inhabitants,1819 it is also the second nation with the most Spanish speakers, only behind Mexico. It has a multicultural population, which reflects the influence of the large-scale European colonization, native peoples, and African labor, with migratory waves from Europe and the Middle East during the 20th century. Colombia's purchasing power parity gross domestic product ranks fourth in Latin America and the 28th place worldwide.  Colombian nom...

Two Central American nations lead the ranking of the happiest countries in Latin America, according to the latest world ranking of well-being called the World Happiness Report 2021. In the region, Costa Rica stands out as the happiest in 16th place globally, followed by Guatemala, Uruguay and Brazil, in a list of 149 nations that takes into account data from the last three years. The authors of the study, sponsored by the United Nations and published since 2012, use polls from the Gallup company that ask respondents about their perception of happiness and cross these data with GDP figures, data on individual freedom, corruption and others to reach a result. Comparing this list with others prior to the pandemic, the authors of the study find that there has been "a significantly higher frequency of negative emotions" in a third of countries. But in 22 countries, there is no perceived decline in well-being or in the perception that people have of their own lives, summarizes, sur...

In 2021  Mexico,  Brazil  and Argentina   are the most influential Latin American countries according to the latest  Global Soft Power Index 2021 report by Brand Finance , the leading independent intangible valuation consultancy whose rankings comply with ISO 10668 and ISO 20671 of brand valuation and evaluation respectively and that contributes with its brand value database to create one of the indicators of the Global Innovation Index (GII) of the UN. Germany  snatches the throne from the United States and becomes the most influential nation in the world while the  United States  falls to sixth position. The former Secretary of State of the United States,  Hillary R. Clinton , participated in the Global Soft Power Summit 2021, organized by Brand Finance where the Global Soft Power Index 2021 report was presented, the most comprehensive research study in the world on the perceptions of national brands, which collects opinions from 75,000 res...

 Follow and be followed The "follow for follow" is the basic technique of fans of social networks and, in particular, the most used technique on Instagram: follow me, I follow you, simple, clear and perhaps effective... But let's go step by step. The first reason you might do this, especially if you're trying to grow your profile, is to let everyone know that your account follows those who follow it. But the initial problem would be: is this really what you want for your business? Are you aspiring to have more followers? Are you interested in this information? And if so, why? Following to be followed involves following others in a non-selective way. Having a profile with a lot of followers, on a first superficial analysis, gives you a bit of credibility by giving you the “interesting profile” label. But this is not always the case and, above all, it may not be enough. Do you follow someone without knowing why? Starting to follow anyone who follows you or giving our fo...